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Texas First State to End American Bar Association oversight of law schools
Toluwani Osibamowo, KERA News
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday finalized a tentative opinion issued in September that no longer requires soon-to-be lawyers to attend a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The power to approve those law schools now rests with the state'…
Jan 8, 2026, 8:44 PM
NASA chief Jared Isaacman says Texas may get a moonship, not space shuttle Discovery
tmalik@space.com (Tariq Malik) , Tariq Malik, Space.com
NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current home in a Smithsonian Air and Space Museum hangar in Virginia, may end with a different spacecraft entirely landing in Houston.
Dec 31, 2025, 5:34 PM
Texas builders say arrests have upended industry...
Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune
Texas builders say arrests have upended industry... (Second column, 10th story, link) Related stories:COLD AS ICE: Number in detention hits record high... More than 68,400 people... 'Construction can't continue'... Drudge Re…
Dec 25, 2025, 10:28 PM
WATCH: Texas supermarket offers shoppers free groceries after computer glitch
ABC News
Christmas came early for some shoppers at an H-E-B supermarket in Texas. The store offered everyone in line free groceries after a computer glitch shut down the registers.
Dec 24, 2025, 8:34 PM
Texas Is Refusing to Explain Why It's Compiling a List of Trans Residents
Danielle Han, Jezebel
AG Paxton and Gov. Abbott haven’t explained why the state would be collecting the names and details of trans people, but I’m not too optimistic anything they say will provide much reassurance.
Dec 18, 2025, 12:51 PM
Texas Producer Battles California to Restart Offshore Oil Platforms
Tsvetana Paraskova, Yahoo Entertainment
A Texas oil firm is fighting an uphill battle with the state of California to restart crude oil production and sales from three platforms in federal waters...
Nov 30, 2025, 10:00 PM
Texas, California National Guard members to leave Portland and Chicago
Luis Martinez, ABC News
The federalized California and Texas National Guard members sent to Portland and Chicago will return to their home states, according to two U.S. officials.
Nov 15, 2025, 9:56 PM
Buddy Holly crosswalk in Texas hometown to be removed following governor's order on road safety
JUAN A. LOZANO, Yahoo Entertainment
Fans of the Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend’s iconic glasses, will soon have to...
Nov 14, 2025, 9:44 PM
Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll ‘impose 100% tariff’ on New Yorkers who move in
Diana Falzone, The Hill
The power to impose tariffs falls within the federal government’s authority in the Constitution, not the states.
Nov 4, 2025, 7:07 PM
Dems Can Win a Senate Seat in Texas. Yes, Really
Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone
Democrats need to play the long game in Texas, which doesn't mean they shouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to flip a Senate Seat in 2026.
Oct 25, 2025, 1:00 PM
FEMA has denied or not advanced most Kerr County aid applications after deadly July 4 flood
Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune, The Texas Tribune
Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county in Texas have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.
Oct 19, 2025, 1:00 PM
Moving NASA Space Shuttle to Texas from DC Could Damage It, Experts Say
Dan Vergano, Scientific American
Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to destroy a near-priceless American treasure,” one historian says
Oct 13, 2025, 11:00 AM
WATCH: Farmer finds NASA equipment in neighbor’s wheat field
ABC News
A woman in rural West Texas says she was caught by surprise when she spotted a car-sized piece of scientific equipment that was adorned with NASA stickers.
Oct 11, 2025, 6:25 PM
Wave of mass layoffs hit hundreds of Texans in San Antonio
Zachary-Taylor Wright, mySA
The military medical center cut ties after 20 years contracted with a Texas company.
Oct 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Texas National Guard seen at training center in Chicago suburbs
Jon Haworth, ABC News
Members of the Texas National Guard have been seen at an Army Reserve Training Center in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, ABC News has learned.
Oct 8, 2025, 11:15 AM
Texas National Guard headed to Illinois, as Pritzker decries 'authoritarian march'
Peter Charalambous, ABC News
Gov. JB Pritzker accused the president of using troops for political gain.
Oct 7, 2025, 3:14 PM
Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for US Senate in Texas, defying GOP leaders to take on Cornyn and Paxton
THOMAS BEAUMONT, Yahoo Entertainment
Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary...
Oct 6, 2025, 10:23 AM
Governor slams ‘Trump’s invasion’ as troops deployed in Illinois
Lyndal Rowlands, Al Jazeera English
Texas governor applauds move to deploy 400 National Guard members from his state to Illinois, Oregon and other states.
Oct 6, 2025, 5:29 AM
WATCH: Texas summer camp hit by deadly flooding to reopen despite parents' objections
ABC News
Less than three months after devastating floods killed 27 people at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, the camp announced it will reopen in 2026, with several families criticizing this decision.
Sep 26, 2025, 5:13 PM
Migrant Detainees Shot in Attack at Dallas ICE Facility
Andrew Perez, Rolling Stone
Multiple individuals were shot at an ICE facility in Dallas, with the Department of Homeland Security reporting migrants were among those injured.
Sep 24, 2025, 3:49 PM
On Texas border, uninsured people stress the health system. It's set to get worse
Sam Whitehead, NPR
In South Texas' Rio Grande Valley, many people go without health insurance, and the health system struggles as a result. Similar communities dot the nation.
Sep 16, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Democratic Minister-in-Training Who Just Entered the Texas Senate Race
Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone
Texas Democrat James Talarico, who just announced a U.S. Senate bid, is a big critic of Christian nationalist billionaires Farris Wilks and Tim Dunn
Sep 10, 2025, 1:00 PM
The Millennial Seminarian Trying to Turn Texas Blue
Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic
Democrats think James Talarico is the type of Senate candidate who could win back the voters his party lost to Trump. First he’d have to win the primary.
Sep 9, 2025, 1:05 PM
A Texas congressman is quietly helping Elon Musk pitch a $760M plan to build tunnels under Houston to ease flooding
Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom, Yilun Cheng, Houston Chronicle, ProPublica
Experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels to divert floodwaters. Musk’s company wants a piece of the project.
Sep 7, 2025, 1:00 PM